System, method, and recording medium for corpus curation for action manifestation for cognitive robots

ABSTRACT

A corpus curation method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include mapping a kinematic motion of a robot to a granular feature of an item in the corpus and answering a user question using the mapped kinematic motion embedded in an answer by the robot.

BACKGROUND

The present invention relates generally to a corpus curation method forcognitive robots, and more particularly, but not by way of limitation,to a system, method, and recording medium for mapping a corpus to linkkinematics for robots to the content of the corpus.

Conventionally, corpus creation for cognitive systems is based onvarious methods. For example, in topic-oriented cognitive systems, everysubsection with topic is broken to the lowest level, processed andtagged, while in context-oriented systems the corpus is “cherry-picked”from the content. Such processed corpus is manifested to the user duringinteraction. While this may be suitable for user interface-basedlearning purposes, for Robot-based interactions (e.g., tangible andintangible interfaces) this is not suitable. A Cognitive Robot isexpected to portray a number of voluntary and involuntary actions alongwith the content.

For example, gestures, movements like raising hand, turning head etc. ofa robot are not tied to the corpus but arbitrarily selected based on theprogrammer's intuition and preference to link certain moves to certainsections of the response.

Conventional techniques use inline programming such that each change(i.e., add/update/delete) in non-default animations requires re-taggingof all responses.

That is, there is a technical problem in the conventional techniques inthat the gestures, movements, responses of a robot are mapped toindividual responses or words such that the robots responses can belimited. In addition, each response needs to be re-mapped based on achange for one type of movement to a word, which can result in hundredsof thousands of changes.

SUMMARY

Thus, the inventors have realized a non-abstract technical solution tothe technical problem to provide significantly more than theconventional technique by simulating human behavior whentalking/describing events, objects, actions etc. and aligning with thecorpus content broken down to features and values thereof portrayed bythe robots during interaction. That is, as the kinematics are based onfine-grained features (and values thereof) of the corpus in thetechnical solution, the robot's behavior will be consistent acrossapplications without a need to re-map each response of the user andinstead change one mapped feature (i.e., a “round” object will bedescribed with the same moves no matter the domain based on the mappedfeature instead of having to re-map every response with a round objectto give a new kinematic motion). Therefore, the technical solutionprovides an offline corpus such that new or modified tags can be pickedup at the processing of the kinematic motion delivery.

In an exemplary embodiment, the present invention can provide a corpuscuration method including a corpus, the method including mapping akinematic motion of a robot to a granular feature of an item in thecorpus and answering a user question using the mapped kinematic motionembedded in an answer by the robot.

Further, in another exemplary embodiment, the present invention canprovide a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording acorpus curation program including a corpus, the program causing acomputer to perform: mapping a kinematic motion of a robot to a granularfeature of an item in the corpus and answering a user question using themapped kinematic motion embedded in an answer by the robot.

Even further, in another exemplary embodiment, the present invention canprovide a corpus curation system, said system including a corpus; aprocessor; and a memory, the memory storing instructions to cause theprocessor to: mapping a kinematic motion of a robot to a granularfeature of an item in the corpus and answering a user question using themapped kinematic motion embedded in an answer by the robot.

There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, an embodiment of theinvention in order that the detailed description thereof herein may bebetter understood, and in order that the present contribution to the artmay be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional exemplaryembodiments of the invention that will be described below and which willform the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.

It is to be understood that the invention is not limited in itsapplication to the details of construction and to the arrangements ofthe components set forth in the following description or illustrated inthe drawings. The invention is capable of embodiments in addition tothose described and of being practiced and carried out in various ways.In addition, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminologyemployed herein, as well as the abstract, are for the purpose ofdescription and should not be regarded as limiting.

As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conceptionupon which this disclosure is based may readily be utilized as a basisfor the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carryingout the several purposes of the present invention. It is important,therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalentconstructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope ofthe present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The exemplary aspects of the invention will be better understood fromthe following detailed description of the exemplary embodiments of theinvention with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 exemplarily shows a high level flow chart for a corpus curationmethod 100.

FIG. 2 exemplarily shows an exemplary working embodiment of the corpuscuration method 100.

FIG. 3 depicts a cloud-computing node according to an embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 4 depicts a cloud-computing environment according to anotherembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 depicts abstraction model layers according to an embodiment ofthe present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The invention will now be described with reference to FIGS. 1-5, inwhich like reference numerals refer to like parts throughout. It isemphasized that, according to common practice, the various features ofthe drawing are not necessarily to scale. On the contrary, thedimensions of the various features can be arbitrarily expanded orreduced for clarity. Exemplary embodiments are provided below forillustration purposes and do not limit the claims.

With reference now to FIG. 1, the corpus curation method 100 includesvarious steps to map kinematic motions of a robot to a granular featureof a corpus such that kinematic motions for features can be re-mappedeasily. Moreover, the method (system) can benefit from “learning” toinfer kinematic motions of related features if a feature is not mappedto a kinematic motion (e.g., “rain” and “umbrella”). As shown in atleast FIG. 4, one or more computers of a computer system 12 can includea memory 28 having instructions stored in a storage system to performthe steps of FIG. 1.

With the use of these various steps and instructions, the corpuscuration method 100 may act in a more sophisticated and useful fashion,and in a cognitive manner while giving the impression of mentalabilities and processes related to knowledge, attention, memory,judgment and evaluation, reasoning, and advanced computation. That is, asystem is said to be “cognitive” if it possesses macro-scaleproperties—perception, goal-oriented behavior, learning/memory andaction—that characterize systems (i.e., humans) that all agree arecognitive.

Although as shown in FIGS. 3-5 and as described later, the computersystem/server 12 is exemplarily shown in cloud computing node 10 as ageneral-purpose computing circuit which may execute in a layer thecorpus curation system method (FIG. 4), it is noted that the presentinvention can be implemented outside of the cloud environment.

It is noted that a cognitive robots (hereafter “robots”) are defined astangible interfaces possessing, for example, the following capabilities:[1]. Cognition embodiment e.g., the ability to be intelligent andinteract in a natural way with humans; [2]. Cognition amplificatione.g., the ability to become a part of the human community intellectuallyas well as physical manifestation wise; and [3]. Cognitive elements maybe physically co-located or spread across and collectively definecognition embodiment and amplification.

Step 101 maps kinematic motions of a robot response to a corpus 130.More specifically, the corpus 130 includes an item 130 a that may be aword or a set of words (e.g., a sentence). The item 130 a includes anumber of features 130 b (e.g., a feature of the items at the lowestgranular level at which the feature cannot be broken down further). Forexample, the item “sun” has features of at least shape (round), color(yellow), and position (up) whereas, the item “lemon” has features ofcolor (yellow) and taste (sour), and whereas the item tree has a featureof height (tall), and the item of book has a feature of shape (square).That is, each feature of the items has a value.

The kinematic motions 130 c of the robot are also described at thelowest granular level of motions. For example, the following kinematicmotions (K(N)) can be mapped to values of features:

-   -   K1=raise both hands at 30 degrees    -   K2=“draw” a circle with the hands    -   K3=“draw” a square with the hands    -   K4=move head so face is at 80 degrees    -   K5=move head so face is at −80 degrees    -   K6=raise arms at 45 degrees    -   K7=turn eyes towards hands    -   K8=“draw” a heart shape with the hands    -   K9=hands overlapped in front of the chest

Each feature and value of the feature is mapped to a kinematic motion byStep 101.

For example, Step 101 maps the following:

-   -   Shape=round-->K1+K2    -   Shape=square-->K1+K3    -   Position=up-->K4    -   Position=down-->K5    -   Size=tall-->K6+K8

Further, Step 101 can map letters, words or sentences to specifickinematics, e.g. moves that represent words/expressions in sign languagefor hearing-impaired people. For example, if Step 103 (as describedlater) determines the delivery type is the robot and the target audienceis not hearing impaired, “love” could be mapped to K1+K8. Alternatively,if the delivery type is the robot and the target audience is hearingimpaired, “love” can be mapped to K9.

Step 102 answers a user question 140 based on the mapped kinematicfeatures of Step 101. For example, an answer of “the sun is very brighttoday” can be answered by Step 102 as “The sun . . . K4+K1+K2 (e.g.,kinematic motions mapped to round and up) . . . is very bright today.Or, an answer of “Yesterday he found a book in the tree” can be answeredby Step 102 as “Yesterday he found a book . . . K1+K3 (e.g., kinematicmotions mapped to square) . . . in the tree . . . K6+K8 (e.g., kinematicmotions mapped to tall).

Thereby, even if the answer to the question is not programmed “inline”with kinematic motion, based on Step 101 mapping kinematic motions tovalues of features of items in the answer offline, the robot can moreaccurately provide kinematic motions with unmapped answers. Also, if theuser wants to change the kinematic motion for “round” from “K1+K2” tojust “K2” (e.g., only draw a circle), each answer does not need to bere-mapped and Step 101 only needs to map the kinematic motion “K2” tothe feature of shape having a value of round and all subsequent answersincluding a word having the feature of shape with a value of round willanswer in Step 102 with a “K2” motion instead of “K1+K2” motions. Thisis a major benefit of the invention in which subsequent programming andprocessing is relatively easy and efficient.

Step 103 determines the audience of the user and delivery type for theanswer in order to improve a type of answer. That is, answers are thendelivered based on the delivery type and target audience. For example,the possible delivery types could be a display interface for text outputor a robot capable of a kinematic motion and a speech output andpossible target audience could include blind, hearing-impaired,non-impaired, etc. As shown in FIG. 2, if Step 103 determines thedelivery type as a “text interface” (Target A), the answer is deliveredas text, if Step 103 determines the delivery type as a robot capable ofa kinematic motion and a speech output and the target audience isnot-impaired (Target C), the answer can be delivered as speech,corpus-based kinematics, and inferred kinematics. If Step 103 determinesthe delivery type of a robot capable of a kinematic motion and a speechoutput but the target audience is determined as being hearing impaired(Target B), answers can be delivered as sign language kinematics withcorpus-based kinematics and inferred kinematics (e.g., no speech).

Also, if a new item appears in the answer that is not mapped to akinematic motion in the corpus, Step 104 infers kinematic mapping inreal-time based on the item having a value of a feature linked (orsimilar to) a mapped item. For example, if there is no kinematic mappingfor “rain” but “umbrella” is mapped as K6 and then K10 of “movingfingers”. Because umbrella can have a feature of “rain protection”, Step104 can infer that if an answer includes “rain” that the kinematicmapping for “umbrella” can be used for “rain”.

Alternatively, Step 104 can determine that “rain” is linked to“umbrella” (e.g., from an inbuilt ontology) and infer a kinematic motion(e.g., robot imitating a raised hand holding an umbrella) even if theword “umbrella” is not mentioned as such in the answer.

On the other hand, Step 104 can detect a sentiment from the answer (i.e.from current response or from longer/entire conversation) and use it toinfer the “happy” or “sad” face/gesture/kinematic (some people likerain, others get sad . . . ), without actually mapping the word “rain”to any of the emotions.

Further, Step 104 can use data mining (e.g., association rules) toinferred relationships from the entire corpus, e.g., “thunder” isrelated to “fear” in most stories, and that can be used as a base toinfer a fear gesture when “thunder” is mentioned in an answer but nospecific sentiment cannot be extracted from the conversation.

Thereby, Step 104 updates the mapped kinematics in the corpus 130 suchthat the method 100 “learns” from prior mapping.

Even further, Step 104 can modify the velocity of a mapped kinematicmotion by inferring a velocity from context of the corpus. For example,if the answer is “I walked towards the tree”, the kinematic motions canbe at a first speed and if the answer is “I ran towards the tree”, thekinematic motions can be at a second speed faster than the first (e.g.,running is faster than walking).

Exemplary Hardware Aspects, Using a Cloud Computing Environment

It is understood in advance that although this disclosure includes adetailed description on cloud computing, implementation of the teachingsrecited herein are not limited to a cloud-computing environment. Rather,embodiments of the present invention are capable of being implemented inconjunction with any other type of computing environment now known orlater developed.

Cloud computing is a model of service delivery for enabling convenient,on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computingresources (e.g. networks, network bandwidth, servers, processing,memory, storage, applications, virtual machines, and services) that canbe rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort orinteraction with a provider of the service. This cloud model may includeat least five characteristics, at least three service models, and atleast four deployment models.

Characteristics are as follows:

On-demand self-service: a cloud consumer can unilaterally provisioncomputing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, asneeded automatically without requiring human interaction with theservice's provider.

Broad network access: capabilities are available over a network andaccessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneousthin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, laptops, and PDAs).

Resource pooling: the provider's computing resources are pooled to servemultiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physicaland virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according todemand. There is a sense of location independence in that the consumergenerally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of theprovided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher levelof abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter).

Rapid elasticity: capabilities can be rapidly and elasticallyprovisioned, in some cases automatically, to quickly scale out andrapidly released to quickly scale in. To the consumer, the capabilitiesavailable for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can bepurchased in any quantity at any time.

Measured service: cloud systems automatically control and optimizeresource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level ofabstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage,processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can bemonitored, controlled, and reported providing transparency for both theprovider and consumer of the utilized service.

Service Models are as follows:

Software as a Service (SaaS): the capability provided to the consumer isto use the provider's applications running on a cloud infrastructure.The applications are accessible from various client circuits through athin client interface such as a web browser (e.g., web-based e-mail) Theconsumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructureincluding network, servers, operating systems, storage, or evenindividual application capabilities, with the possible exception oflimited user-specific application configuration settings.

Platform as a Service (PaaS): the capability provided to the consumer isto deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquiredapplications created using programming languages and tools supported bythe provider. The consumer does not manage or control the underlyingcloud infrastructure including networks, servers, operating systems, orstorage, but has control over the deployed applications and possiblyapplication hosting environment configurations.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): the capability provided to theconsumer is to provision processing, storage, networks, and otherfundamental computing resources where the consumer is able to deploy andrun arbitrary software, which can include operating systems andapplications. The consumer does not manage or control the underlyingcloud infrastructure but has control over operating systems, storage,deployed applications, and possibly limited control of select networkingcomponents (e.g., host firewalls).

Deployment Models are as follows:

Private cloud: the cloud infrastructure is operated solely for anorganization. It may be managed by the organization or a third party andmay exist on-premises or off-premises.

Community cloud: the cloud infrastructure is shared by severalorganizations and supports a specific community that has shared concerns(e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and complianceconsiderations). It may be managed by the organizations or a third partyand may exist on-premises or off-premises.

Public cloud: the cloud infrastructure is made available to the generalpublic or a large industry group and is owned by an organization sellingcloud services.

Hybrid cloud: the cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or moreclouds (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities butare bound together by standardized or proprietary technology thatenables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting forload-balancing between clouds).

A cloud computing environment is service oriented with a focus onstatelessness, low coupling, modularity, and semantic interoperability.At the heart of cloud computing is an infrastructure comprising anetwork of interconnected nodes.

Referring now to FIG. 3, a schematic of an example of a cloud computingnode is shown. Cloud computing node 10 is only one example of a suitablecloud computing node and is not intended to suggest any limitation as tothe scope of use or functionality of embodiments of the inventiondescribed herein. Regardless, cloud computing node 10 is capable ofbeing implemented and/or performing any of the functionality set forthhereinabove.

In cloud computing node 10 there is a computer system/server 12, whichis operational with numerous other general purpose or special purposecomputing system environments or configurations. Examples of well-knowncomputing systems, environments, and/or configurations that may besuitable for use with computer system/server 12 include, but are notlimited to, personal computer systems, server computer systems, thinclients, thick clients, hand-held or laptop circuits, multiprocessorsystems, microprocessor-based systems, set top boxes, programmableconsumer electronics, network PCs, minicomputer systems, mainframecomputer systems, and distributed cloud computing environments thatinclude any of the above systems or circuits, and the like.

Computer system/server 12 may be described in the general context ofcomputer system-executable instructions, such as program modules, beingexecuted by a computer system. Generally, program modules may includeroutines, programs, objects, components, logic, data structures, and soon that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract datatypes. Computer system/server 12 may be practiced in distributed cloudcomputing environments where tasks are performed by remote processingcircuits that are linked through a communications network. In adistributed cloud computing environment, program modules may be locatedin both local and remote computer system storage media including memorystorage circuits.

As shown in FIG. 3, computer system/server 12 in cloud computing node 10is shown in the form of a general-purpose computing circuit. Thecomponents of computer system/server 12 may include, but are not limitedto, one or more processors or processing units 16, a system memory 28,and a bus 18 that couples various system components including systemmemory 28 to processor 16.

Bus 18 represents one or more of any of several types of bus structures,including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, anaccelerated graphics port, and a processor or local bus using any of avariety of bus architectures. By way of example, and not limitation,such architectures include Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus,Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) bus, Enhanced ISA (EISA) bus, VideoElectronics Standards Association (VESA) local bus, and PeripheralComponent Interconnects (PCI) bus.

Computer system/server 12 typically includes a variety of computersystem readable media. Such media may be any available media that isaccessible by computer system/server 12, and it includes both volatileand non-volatile media, removable and non-removable media.

System memory 28 can include computer system readable media in the formof volatile memory, such as random access memory (RAM) 30 and/or cachememory 32. Computer system/server 12 may further include otherremovable/non-removable, volatile/non-volatile computer system storagemedia. By way of example only, storage system 34 can be provided forreading from and writing to a non-removable, non-volatile magnetic media(not shown and typically called a “hard drive”). Although not shown, amagnetic disk drive for reading from and writing to a removable,non-volatile magnetic disk (e.g., a “floppy disk”), and an optical diskdrive for reading from or writing to a removable, non-volatile opticaldisk such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or other optical media can be provided.In such instances, each can be connected to bus 18 by one or more datamedia interfaces. As will be further depicted and described below,memory 28 may include at least one program product having a set (e.g.,at least one) of program modules that are configured to carry out thefunctions of embodiments of the invention.

Program/utility 40, having a set (at least one) of program modules 42,may be stored in memory 28 by way of example, and not limitation, aswell as an operating system, one or more application programs, otherprogram modules, and program data. Each of the operating system, one ormore application programs, other program modules, and program data orsome combination thereof, may include an implementation of a networkingenvironment. Program modules 42 generally carry out the functions and/ormethodologies of embodiments of the invention as described herein.

Computer system/server 12 may also communicate with one or more externalcircuits 14 such as a keyboard, a pointing circuit, a display 24, etc.;one or more circuits that enable a user to interact with computersystem/server 12; and/or any circuits (e.g., network card, modem, etc.)that enable computer system/server 12 to communicate with one or moreother computing circuits. Such communication can occur via Input/Output(I/O) interfaces 22. Still yet, computer system/server 12 cancommunicate with one or more networks such as a local area network(LAN), a general wide area network (WAN), and/or a public network (e.g.,the Internet) via network adapter 20. As depicted, network adapter 20communicates with the other components of computer system/server 12 viabus 18. It should be understood that although not shown, other hardwareand/or software components could be used in conjunction with computersystem/server 12. Examples, include, but are not limited to: microcode,circuit drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays,RAID systems, tape drives, and data archival storage systems, etc.

Referring now to FIG. 4, illustrative cloud computing environment 50 isdepicted. As shown, cloud computing environment 50 comprises one or morecloud computing nodes 10 with which local computing circuits used bycloud consumers, such as, for example, personal digital assistant (PDA)or cellular telephone 54A, desktop computer 54B, laptop computer 54C,and/or automobile computer system 54N may communicate. Nodes 10 maycommunicate with one another. They may be grouped (not shown) physicallyor virtually, in one or more networks, such as Private, Community,Public, or Hybrid clouds as described hereinabove, or a combinationthereof. This allows cloud computing environment 50 to offerinfrastructure, platforms and/or software as services for which a cloudconsumer does not need to maintain resources on a local computingcircuit. It is understood that the types of computing circuits 54A-Nshown in FIG. 4 are intended to be illustrative only and that computingnodes 10 and cloud computing environment 50 can communicate with anytype of computerized circuit over any type of network and/or networkaddressable connection (e.g., using a web browser).

Referring now to FIG. 5, a set of functional abstraction layers providedby cloud computing environment 50 (FIG. 4) is shown. It should beunderstood in advance that the components, layers, and functions shownin FIG. 5 are intended to be illustrative only and embodiments of theinvention are not limited thereto. As depicted, the following layers andcorresponding functions are provided:

Hardware and software layer 60 includes hardware and softwarecomponents. Examples of hardware components include: mainframes 61; RISC(Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture based servers 62;servers 63; blade servers 64; storage circuits 65; and networks andnetworking components 66. In some embodiments, software componentsinclude network application server software 67 and database software 68.

Virtualization layer 70 provides an abstraction layer from which thefollowing examples of virtual entities may be provided: virtual servers71; virtual storage 72; virtual networks 73, including virtual privatenetworks; virtual applications and operating systems 74; and virtualclients 75.

In one example, management layer 80 may provide the functions describedbelow. Resource provisioning 81 provides dynamic procurement ofcomputing resources and other resources that are utilized to performtasks within the cloud computing environment. Metering and Pricing 82provide cost tracking as resources are utilized within the cloudcomputing environment, and billing or invoicing for consumption of theseresources. In one example, these resources may comprise applicationsoftware licenses. Security provides identity verification for cloudconsumers and tasks, as well as protection for data and other resources.User portal 83 provides access to the cloud computing environment forconsumers and system administrators. Service level management 84provides cloud computing resource allocation and management such thatrequired service levels are met. Service Level Agreement (SLA) planningand fulfillment 85 provide pre-arrangement for, and procurement of,cloud computing resources for which a future requirement is anticipatedin accordance with an SLA.

Workloads layer 90 provides examples of functionality for which thecloud computing environment may be utilized. Examples of workloads andfunctions which may be provided from this layer include: mapping andnavigation 91; software development and lifecycle management 92; virtualclassroom education delivery 93; data analytics processing 94;transaction processing 95; and, more particularly relative to thepresent invention, the anti-counterfeiting system 100 and theanti-counterfeiting system 600 described herein.

The descriptions of the various embodiments of the present inventionhave been presented for purposes of illustration, but are not intendedto be exhaustive or limited to the embodiments disclosed. Manymodifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skillin the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the describedembodiments. The terminology used herein was chosen to best explain theprinciples of the embodiments, the practical application or technicalimprovement over technologies found in the marketplace, or to enableothers of ordinary skill in the art to understand the embodimentsdisclosed herein.

Further, Applicant's intent is to encompass the equivalents of all claimelements, and no amendment to any claim of the present applicationshould be construed as a disclaimer of any interest in or right to anequivalent of any element or feature of the amended claim.

What is claimed is:
 1. A corpus curation method including a corpus, themethod comprising: mapping a kinematic motion of a robot to a granularfeature of an item in the corpus; and answering a user question usingthe mapped kinematic motion embedded in an answer by the robot.
 2. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the granular feature comprises a value of afeature of the item in the corpus.
 3. The method of claim 1, wherein themapping maps a plurality of kinematic motions to the granular feature.4. The method of claim 1, wherein the kinematic motion comprises avisual representation of a value of the granular feature such that therobot performs the kinematic motion during the answering as the visualrepresentation of the item in the answer.
 5. The method of claim 1,further comprising determining an audience type of the answer and adelivery capability of the robot and causing the answering to change acontext of the answer according to the audience and the deliverycapability.
 6. The method of claim 1, wherein a delivery type of theanswer by the robot includes at least one of: a textual displayinterface for a text output; a kinematic motion output by the robot; anda speech output by the robot, and wherein an audience type comprises anyof: a blind user; a hearing-impaired user; and a non-impaired user, andthe method further comprising determining the audience type and thedelivery capability and causing the robot to change the answer based onthe delivery capability and the audience type.
 7. The method of claim 6,wherein, if the determining determines the audience type as thehearing-impaired user, the answering only causes the robot to deliverthe answer with the kinematic motion, and wherein, if the determiningdetermines the audience type as the blind user, the answering onlycauses the robot to deliver the answer with a speech output.
 8. Themethod of claim 1, further comprising inferring the kinematic motion ofa mapped item to a related item in the corpus when the related item isnot mapped by the mapping such that answering causes the robot toperform the kinematic motion of the mapped item for the related item. 9.The method of claim 8, wherein the inferring determines if the relateditem is related to the granular feature of a mapped item by an inbuiltontology in the corpus.
 10. The method of claim 8, wherein the inferringuses an association rule by data mining the corpus to infer the relateditem to a mapped item.
 11. The method of claim 1, further comprisinginferring a velocity of the kinematic motion performed by the robotbased on a velocity feature indicating a speed of the granular featureof the item in the corpus.
 12. A non-transitory computer-readablerecording medium recording a corpus curation program including a corpus,the program causing a computer to perform: mapping a kinematic motion ofa robot to a granular feature of an item in the corpus; and answering auser question using the mapped kinematic motion embedded in an answer bythe robot.
 13. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium ofclaim 12, wherein the granular feature comprises a value of a feature ofthe item in the corpus.
 14. The non-transitory computer-readablerecording medium of claim 12, wherein the mapping maps a plurality ofkinematic motions to the granular feature.
 15. The non-transitorycomputer-readable recording medium of claim 12, wherein the kinematicmotion comprises a visual representation of a value of the granularfeature such that the robot performs the kinematic motion during theanswering as the visual representation of the item in the answer. 16.The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 12,further comprising determining an audience type of the answer and adelivery capability of the robot and causing the answering to change acontext of the answer according to the audience and the deliverycapability.
 17. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium ofclaim 12, wherein a delivery type of the answer by the robot includes atleast one of: a textual display interface for a text output; a kinematicmotion output by the robot; and a speech output by the robot, andwherein an audience type comprises any of: a blind user; ahearing-impaired user; and a non-impaired user, and the method furthercomprising determining the audience type and the delivery capability andcausing the robot to change the answer based on the delivery capabilityand the audience type.
 18. The non-transitory computer-readablerecording medium of claim 17, wherein, if the determining determines theaudience type as the hearing-impaired user, the answering only causesthe robot to deliver the answer with the kinematic motion, and wherein,if the determining determines the audience type as the blind user, theanswering only causes the robot to deliver the answer with a speechoutput.
 19. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium ofclaim 12, further comprising inferring the kinematic motion of a mappeditem to a related item in the corpus when the related item is not mappedby the mapping such that the answering causes the robot to perform thekinematic motion of the mapped item for the related item.
 20. A corpuscuration system, said system comprising: a corpus; a processor; and amemory, the memory storing instructions to cause the processor to: map akinematic motion of a robot to a granular feature of an item in thecorpus; and answer a user question using the mapped kinematic motionembedded in an answer by the robot.